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Disk drives, 3.5-inch floppy disk drive, CD-ROM drive

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27 Disk drives Your system comes with the following disk drives: 3.5-inch floppy disk drive Your system's 3.5-inch floppy disk drive can handle 720-KB and 1.44-MB capacity diskettes. The floppy diskettes are compact, lightweight, and easy to carry around. Here are some tips on how to take care of your diskettes: • Always make backup copies of the diskettes that contain important data or program files. • Keep diskettes away from magnetic fields and sources of heat. • Avoid removing a diskette from a drive when the floppy drive activity light is on. • Write-protect your diskettes to prevent accidental erasure. To do this, slide the write-protect tab to the write-protect position. Write-protected Not write-protected • When you put a label on a 3.5-inch diskette, make sure that the label is properly attached (flat on the surface) and within the labeling area (area with a slight surface depression) on the diskette. An improperly attached label may cause a diskette to get stuck in a drive when you are inserting or removing it. CD-ROM drive Your system comes with a CD-ROM drive. This drive is located on the front panel of your system. The CD-ROM drive allows you to play different types of compact discs (CDs) and video CDs. CDs, like diskettes, are also compact, lightweight, and easy to carry around. However, they are more delicate than diskettes and must be handled with extra care.

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Disk drives
Your system comes with the following disk drives:
3.5-inch floppy disk drive
Your system’s 3.5-inch floppy disk drive can handle 720-KB and 1.44-MB
capacity diskettes.
The floppy diskettes are compact, lightweight, and easy to carry around. Here are
some tips on how to take care of your diskettes:
•
Always make backup copies of the diskettes that contain important data or
program files.
•
Keep diskettes away from magnetic fields and sources of heat.
•
Avoid removing a diskette from a drive when the floppy drive activity light is
on.
•
Write-protect your diskettes to prevent accidental erasure.
To do this, slide
the write-protect tab to the write-protect position.
•
When you put a label on a 3.5-inch diskette, make sure that the label is
properly attached (flat on the surface) and within the labeling area (area with
a slight surface depression) on the diskette.
An improperly attached label
may cause a diskette to get stuck in a drive when you are inserting or
removing it.
CD-ROM drive
Your system comes with a CD-ROM drive.
This drive is located on the front panel
of your system.
The CD-ROM drive allows you to play different types of compact
discs (CDs) and video CDs. CDs, like diskettes, are also compact, lightweight, and
easy to carry around.
However, they are more delicate than diskettes and must be
handled with extra care.
Not
write-protected
Write-protected